Cocoa Crusty

Have you ever let perfection slip through your arms out of fear? Have you held perfection in your hands and let it slip through like water through a drain? Have you ever felt like your cries fall on deaf ears? Have you ever wondered why you’ve caused so much and felt so much pain?

When you say you’ll never hurt someone again, can you go back to them knowing there’s always a possibility that it could happen even if you realize your mistakes? Do you think that there’s a true path designed for you? Do you understand why you walk in the opposite direction?

When things seem so right, why do you find wrong in them? When you can’t find anything negative, why do you still turn and run? Why does the right thing cause you to fear the worst when you haven’t even seen a hint of evil in it thus far? It’s strange how the choices you make effect your life in the most drastic way… Even when the decisions seem so miniscule to the grand scheme of things…

The simplest things in the world seem to be the most weighing… You pull the trigger on a decision and you feel the pain for an eternity… Why?

Until next time…

Ok, ok, I didn’t walk/run yesterday… I know it’s wrong. I put in two days back to back and felt like trash yesterday so I went home and straight to bed… I’ll double up this evening. I’ll do my 15 minute walk that I should have done yesterday and then my “walk 5 minutes, run 1, walk 5, run 1, walk 5″ workout this evening a little later… I’m gonna make this work!

Until next time…

Well, I have recently reentered the 200+ club… Today I weighed in at 202.3 pounds… I have been feeling a little trashy… Not so much about my physical appearance, which is rough in itself, but just physically blah… I knew it was time for a change.

I had heard about the whole collaboration between Nike and Apple where you can put this nifty little device in your shoe, have it wirelessly transmit to an Apple iPod Nano, and then report your results from your walks/runs to the Nike+ Web site…

The Nike+ Web site allows you to keep track of your runs: the distance, time, calories burned, etc. It also lets you set goals for yourself and also provides training through pre-configured workout plans. Well, being the techie that I am, and the bigness that I sport, I decided to give this stuff a try.

Today was my first WALK and my first bit of exercise in quite sometime… I broke a sweat, my legs burned at first, but overall I really enjoyed it… My stats will constantly be updated in the block below. You can laugh and it won’t even hurt my feelings… But, and I do mean but, keep in mind that I still currently smoke a pack a day… which I hope to quit soon… I’ve already started eating grilled chicken wraps or grilled chicken salads pretty regularly… Anyway, that’s me…

Until next time…

I woke up yesterday to my Apple TV not working quite right with content that wasn’t stored on the Apple TV’s local hard drive. I had a bridal shoot to do for my Fruitful Studios gig so I didn’t really have much time to do any troubleshooting.

The shoot started at my house using my portable studio/backdrop. Before we headed downtown I decided to take a look at my MacBook to see what was going on. The laptop’s screen was gray… Hmmm… I held down the power button and the system shut down. I pressed the power button again and on the laptop came, taking forever to bring the Apple logo up and the process gear.

When the logo and gear did show up, it was on the screen forever. I repeated the nifty little power off, power on routine several times and had the same results. By this time, it was time for me to head out with the bride to be and do some more shooting. I left the laptop on while I was gone with the Apple logo and gear displayed and the gear was just a spinning…

When I got back from the shoot, my laptop screen had the lovely logon dialog box on it with my blue background! Praise God!!! w00t! And all that… But, when I tried to logon, the “beach ball” just spun and never did anything. At this point, I noticed the wonderful sound of metal on metal grinding… Any techie probably can guess what that meant…

I tried the whole power off and power on thing a few more times until I finally got a different image on the grey background instead of the Apple logo: it was a nifty folder icon with a question mark on it… Any Mac fans care to guess what this means? That’s right, kids. The system can’t find a bootable system partition… Great fun! My hard drive is trash!!!

That’s right. The Hitachi Travelstar™ (Model: HTS541616J9SA00) 160GB, 5400RPM hard drive I had in my MacBook bit it… hard! Thankfully, I backup all of my critical data, but one thing I don’t backup is my Applications folder… Crap!

I purchased a 320GB Western Digital (Part number goes here when I can find the box) drive from Best Buy, slapped it in, and started the rebuilding process… This could take a while… From now on, I will be using the Time Machine feature built-in to Leopard… Time Machine supposedly backups all data on your Mac, making it extremely simple to restore a machine easily and quickly…

Hopefully, I won’t have any more hard drive failures, but if I do, maybe Time Machine can save the day…

Until next time…